New Energy Balance, New Atmospheric Circulation and New Water Cycle in Western Mediterranean

The increase in the Earth's energy balance, due to the surplus of anthropogenic greenhouse gases, has created a warmer earth-based climate regime, widening the excess tropic zone to the poles. The characteristics and rhythms of this climate become unusual, with extreme weather conditions: more frequent heat and cold waves, strong gusts of wind, more severe droughts, and more frequent floods. This is the terrestrial "New Climate".

This situation is characterized by a new thermal distribution: above the ocean, the situation is more in surplus energetic budget, and the land - atmosphere is negative. Warm thermal advection easily reach the Pole, as well as cold advection push deep into Western Mediterranean.

This "New Ground Energy Balance" establishes an atmospheric circulation with an waving character throughout the year, including in winter, characterized by intense energy exchanges latitudinal very active between the surplus and deficit areas on the one hand, and the atmosphere, the ocean and the continent of the other.

The new thermal distribution reorganizes the geography of atmospheric pressure: the ocean energy concentration is transmitted directly to the atmosphere, and the excess torque is pushed northward. The Azores anticyclone is strengthened and is a global lock by the Atlantic ridge at Greenland, which imposes on the jet stream a positive ripple, very strongly marked poleward, bringing cosmic cold advection of polar air masses winter over from Europe to Western Mediterranean. Hence the enormous meridian heat exchanges north-south-north. This is the "New" Meridian Atmospheric Circulation (MAC).

This situation increases the potential evaporation of the atmosphere and provides a new geographical distribution of Moisture: the excess water vapor is easily converted by cold advection to heavy rains that cause floods or snow storms.

Thus, the "New Energy Balance" creates a "New" Meridian-dominated Atmospheric Circulation, which induces excess atmospheric water vapor due to the increase in temperature. Since the hydro-atmospheric capacity has increased, the return to the ground is abundant: It is the "New Water Cycle", which accompanies the “New Energy Balance” of the Earth.